Improvement in cotton-bale tie



J'. HEDENBERGH t COTTON BALE IE;

No. ..75'.267 Patented Mar. '10, 1868;

fzzrezz/ar.

1 r -mt2h tstts gaunt ffxtt,

Letters Patent No. 75;267, dated March 10, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIE.

fi l Srlgrtulr return tr in flgrse Enters smut mm mating and Hi it: same.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. HEDENBl-IRG, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles to be Used-in Banding Bales of Cotton; and'I do hereby declare that the following is a true and exact description thereof. reference being had-to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to provide a. cheap; simple, and efiicient buckle to be used in baling cotton.

My buckle is made in one piece, and can be made of cast or wrought metal.

Figure 1 is a perspective view,' and i Figure 2 is a. side view of mybuuk'lc, with the tweendszof the band'properly'mach'ed' and'readyfor'use;

. The two sides of the buckle a and b, fig 1, are bent. at an angle of about forty-fivedegrees, the distance from c to d being about one-half to a third as long as the distance from c to c. There are three bars; 602d,

extending from the sides a and b, as shown infig. 1. They are also located as shown in fig. 1.

The operation of my invention is as follows: One end of the band is permanently fastened at the bar e.

The other end is passed around the bale, over the bar a, through between the bars a and d, over the bar (1, and

then back under the buckle, extending back as far; as desirable. I g

It will be observed that the end of the band in passing over and around the bars 0 and d, describes two acute angles, and'that the two angles do not fall in the same perpendicular line, as the two bars are in different planes. A plane drawn through the bars 'Z and c, it will be'obs erved, is so placed that it forms an angle of ihont forty-five degrces'with' a plane drawn through the bars a and c. The bar (1 might be placed sons to fulldirectly under the bar 0, or it might be pln-ced so as to come between the two, with the samercsult 'as at present located. These bars are made round, or nearly so,- the edges being rounded or-bevelled, so that there are no sharp edges presented to the band.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cotton-tie buckle, made and constructed substantially in the manner describei JOHN W. HEDENBERG.

Witnesses: I

JAMES A. Cownus, Jenn BROWNE. 

